API Plans Election-Year Blitz in the Face of Climate Policy Pressure

"The massive oil industry group will take on Biden policies, argue for fossil fuel expansion as part of the greenhouse gas solution."

"The nation’s leading oil and gas industry group made clear this week that it will use the 2024 election as a platform to campaign for its own future.

The American Petroleum Institute, at its annual “State of American Energy” event, launched a multimillion-dollar advertising blitz to make the case for expanded U.S. fossil fuel exploration, production and exports.

Although the group urged bipartisan action on the issue, its leaders blasted President Joe Biden’s policies, which they portrayed as more restrictive for fossil fuel development than those of President Barack Obama."

Marianne Lavelle reports for Inside Climate News January 12, 2024.

Source: Inside Climate News, 01/17/2024